FediHood is free software for talking with the people around you, by topic [Fediverse and now open source]

Discover and discuss with people near you, by topic. Built on ActivityPub and OpenStreetMap.

FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.

It stays a normal fediverse app. Your posts can reach Mastodon, PixelFed, Misskey and the rest, and posts from those servers reach you too.

Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood

There's only one instance so far: https://fedihood.social/

If new instances are created, they should show up here: https://fedihood.fediverse.observer/list

Cris_Citrus 60 points 2 months ago

Seems like it would be really hard for it to hit critical mass of users but I really like the premise of the platform, I'll have to make an account

Thanks for posting it! ☺️

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grrgyle 20 points 2 months ago

I joined last week and I'm already seeing more local people like from neighbouring towns and I'm not in a huge city or anything

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Cris_Citrus 15 points 2 months ago

Thats sick as fuck, super excited to hear that!

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Die4Ever 17 points 2 months ago

I think if they focus on interop with other platforms, like using hashtags for regional posts, it could work

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brucethemoose 3 points 2 months ago

Thats the secret sauce of the Fediverse.

It doesnt have to compete/steal attention across apps. It can cooperate and combine it.

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JupiterRowland 2 points 2 months ago

Realistically, they'll build FediHood against Mastodon and its inner workings and call it a day.

Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte all have (partly optional) dedicated profile fields for your location (street, town, postal code, region/state, nation, Facebook-style "hometown" as in place of origin). FediHood could use these. But, like so often, I've got my doubts that the makers of FediHood even only know that Friendica exists.

I mean, if they really knew even only Friendica and Hubzilla, they would have made FediHood a third-party add-on for Hubzilla.

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arotrios 27 points 2 months ago

It says it has Mastodon integration, but what about lemmy?

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Die4Ever 10 points 2 months ago

I tried @tagging a community and it didn't work

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Die4Ever 24 points 2 months ago

they're also adding support for events:

#FediHood now supports #ActivityPub events, which means it is compatible with software such as #Mobilizon. You can create and receive events in the area you selected.

Joining and leaving events is not implemented yet.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117135294099685805

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WhyJiffie 2 points 2 months ago

is there somewhere a list of ActivityPub server software that supports events? a very useful thing, but I think only mobilizon and friendica supports it, both of which are buggy, and otherwise not as easy to recommend as lemmy or mastodon.

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Die4Ever 1 point 2 months ago

PieFed supports events, but only if you're posting to a PieFed community not a Lemmy community

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Hamartiogonic 23 points 2 months ago

Pretty neat. There's one post in the same city. Another one about 150 km away, and third one about 350 km away. I really expected everyone to be like at least 3 Mm away from me.

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Mubelotix 7 points 2 months ago

Nice use of Mm bro

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Hamartiogonic 3 points 2 months ago

Some people like to keep on adding zeroes, but I prefer to remove them. 3 400 000 m^3 of water is just 3.4 GL.

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strop 4 points 2 months ago

3.400000 GL

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Hamartiogonic 1 point 2 months ago

LOL. Wait until you hear about the other prefixes: μL, nL, pL, aL etc. There’s even more of you really want to max it out.

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poVoq 19 points 2 months ago

Hmm, I was hoping the source-code would give some disclosure on LLM use, but it is just a single commit and doesn't mention LLM use. Call me jaded, but that feels a bit like covering your tracks to avoid that topic being raised.

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tofu 6 points 2 months ago

I checked as well, but the author has plenty older projects(fedilab among them) to check (I didn't go as far, but I'd be surprised they'd actively cover tracks when they have over active repos).

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rako 7 points 2 months ago

Fedilab is clean but their latest project, holos, is ai-ridden. As nice as fedihood sounds the history does make me hesitant to follow it

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Kierunkowy74 4 points 2 months ago

Both Holos and Fedihood use LLMs for help with documentation, code review and automated actions, like refactoring or tests

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gwl 16 points 2 months ago

Neat idea, kinda like Nextdoor but not full of Facebook moms

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Maeve 1 point 2 months ago

Wait.

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VitoRobles 1 point 2 months ago

Not full of them... Yet.

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gwl 0 points 2 months ago

Facebook moms aren't techy enough to understand the fediverse

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discoplasm 13 points 2 months ago

sounds very interesting! i am moving to a new city next month so i would love finding some localised stuff more easily :D

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hexagon527 10 points 2 months ago

any screenshots of what it looks like when signed in?

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Die4Ever 14 points 2 months ago

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hexagon527 7 points 2 months ago

thanks so much

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anon_8675309 9 points 2 months ago

Cool. We need something other than NextDoor. I’m like, I know you people! You don’t act this way in person!

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A_Random_Idiot 2 points 2 months ago

do we? do we even need nextdoor?

If i wanted to talk to my neighbors, I'd go outside and do it.

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anon_8675309 5 points 2 months ago

I do. I have cool neighbors. But it’s a good way to hear from other neighborhoods what people are sharing regarding local issues.

The problem is it gets toxic due to politics.

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A_Random_Idiot 2 points 2 months ago

sounds like you are hitting every point for talking face to face and avoiding an online replacement.

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VitoRobles 2 points 2 months ago

I had a few neighborhoods where we had email groups or Facebook groups.

It's a good way to interact with people asynchronously.

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ChilledPeppers 7 points 2 months ago

Well, there are 5 posts in my state in germany, but the idea is cool.

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tofu 7 points 2 months ago

That's really promising, I have to test this

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davidgro 6 points 2 months ago

This seems unreasonable to me:

Only one browser at a time holds the keys decrypting new messages, moving needs a fresh backup from the active browser.

Messages sent after the backup was taken stay unreadable on this browser.

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Sibbo 8 points 2 months ago

I don't think an encrypted message feature is necessary for this kind of a web app. If people want to send encrypted messages, they can just switch to a different service for that. Like you get them to know on fedihood, exchange matrix handles or phone numbers or whatever, and then you can use a different service for private communication.

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Maeve 1 point 2 months ago

Because AI Surveillance states are nothing for concern.

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brucethemoose 0 points 2 months ago

Less friction is better though. And not everyone knows where else to go for E2E.

The problem to me would be development burden, but its alreast implemented so...

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WhyJiffie 3 points 2 months ago

E2EE is very hard to implement safely. serious cryptography is not a hobbyist project. just look at all the problems matrix has had with it.

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poVoq 3 points 2 months ago

Makes e2ee much easier that way.

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davidgro 2 points 2 months ago

I feel like it should still work if making a backup didn't clear a browser, and restoring to a second browser should let both work.

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WhyJiffie 3 points 2 months ago

key management is lot harder. signal does not support multi-clients for a reason, you can look at the history of matrix with encryption to find out what are the problem is. I'm not sure they even fixed or just know of all the failure modes of it.

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davidgro 1 point 2 months ago

Matrix is a good example I think: It allows a client to authorize another client so both work. It's not the same 'backup' scenario, but proves the concept can work.

Is there an easy reference for the history there? I've used it over the years but not regularly enough to see it changing.

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SteveCC 5 points 2 months ago

Cool - I joined

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barkingspiders 5 points 2 months ago

this sounds neat!

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arindam01 5 points 2 months ago

So it’s holos.social on a server? Did I get that right?

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mrmaplebar 4 points 2 months ago

Interesting idea.

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hauke 3 points 2 months ago

Signed on with GMX e-mail address for account recovery, confirmation email went into the spam folder.

Except for that, very nice registration process.

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Rijunox 3 points 2 months ago

Tried signing up with a proton email but still haven't received a confirmation. Are there currently problems with sign ups?

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Seimhe 3 points 2 months ago

Apparently the advice is that because the domain is so young, emails could get filtered into spam https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117140609785780347

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Rijunox 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I checked the spam folder, but nothing showed up. No worries maybe I'll check it out another time.

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Mubelotix 3 points 2 months ago

Does it federate with regular Mastodon instances?

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Die4Ever 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, but there's no ability to search for users yet. So I guess you have to tag them or message them before you can follow them, or maybe if they follow you first

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veggay 2 points 2 months ago

I made an account yesterday and it all seemed fine but after some hours it went empty. Can't see any posts or anything and my profile is empty as well with a "?" as an icon 🤔

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Die4Ever 3 points 2 months ago

I've noticed this too, had to log out and back in

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